Thomas S. Nielsen's blog » christmas http://www.thomassnielsen.com Tech, food and other important stuff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:11:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Inventory system screenshot http://www.thomassnielsen.com/2009/12/inventory-system-screenshot/ http://www.thomassnielsen.com/2009/12/inventory-system-screenshot/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:39:06 +0000 thomas http://www.thomassnielsen.com/?p=336 Inventory system

Inventory system

Thought I would add a screenshot from my inventory system. Text is in Norwegian only for now. I will translate it if I consider uploading it somewhere.

What you are seeing is the search function, where I just performed a search with a barcode scanner (which by the way works flawlessly on Ubuntu Linux, and not at all on my XP machine at work).

Currently the inventory system has the following features:

  • Add, edit and delete items
  • Add, edit and delete users/owners
  • Add, edit and delete owner groups (people, storage rooms, etc)
  • Add, edit and delete item types (PCs, laptops, printers, etc)
  • Add, edit and delete models (Dell optiplex GX280, HP 1740, Wyse S50, etc)
  • Add, edit and delete conditions (In use, Discarded, In for repair, available, etc)
  • Search by barcode, owner, type or model
  • See statistics of number of items, owners and changes (changes are displayed for past day, week, and total)
  • List all owners
  • List all items
  • Each item is registered with barcode, date of purchase, date of last edit, model, owner, type and condition
  • Dropdown lists are used where possible/reasonable

If you are interested, please ask. If I get any response, the chance of me open sourcing it is far greater.

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Having completed all the critical tasks and much more, I figured I could use some time to replace our inventory system. Currently we use an Access database on a PC running Windows 98 without any backup.

I figured I could do something about that quite easily. So in the past few days I’ve been programming a web-based inventory system tailored to our needs, but still expandable. I still got a couple of hours of PHP coding left before it’s done, but I feel confident that it will be up and running by tomorrow.

I plan to run the new system on a virtual machine running LAMP, and having redundant backup. Since php is not a required skill for this job, I will of course also make sure that I document it well, and make a guide on how to export an excel spreadsheet with phpmyadmin if needed.

I am still considering if I should open source it or not, we’ll have to see how it goes.

Marry Christmas (and/or other hollydays) and happy new year to you all.

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